Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in 4 months

Uber’s cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible.

New Microsoft tool lets devs spin up AI behavior tests using text descriptions

Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing, an open source framework for spinning up AI evaluations.

Martin Scorsese becomes the latest — and most unlikely — Hollywood voice for AI

The caveat is that one of the world’s most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding.

Alphabet plans to raise $80B to pay for AI buildout

“The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions and services from enterprises and consumers, at levels that are exceeding the company’s available supply,” Alphabet said in its statement.

Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP

If Nvidia has cracked a way to bring AI agents easily, safely, and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big.

Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit over violent incidents

The lawsuit partially revolves around a shooting at Florida State University last year, and ChatGPT’s alleged role in the incident.

Making sense of the debate over AI psychosis

On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether tech CEOs are “uniquely prone to AI psychosis.”

Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

Meta seems to be making big bets on AI-powered hardware.

I put Google’s 24/7 AI assistant Gemini Spark to work, and it’s actually pretty useful

Gemini Spark helps automate everyday tasks, from inbox summaries to local event planning, but it’s unclear why Google made it a separate product.

Coders are refusing to work without AI — and that could come back to bite them 

While AI is helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, researchers warn. And that could cause problems down the road for them.